The Great Trek of the Russian Mennonites to Central Asia, 1880-1884, Fred Richard Belk, 1976

gh the Des- ert’ 91, 155 Oxus River 63 P Pacifist 34, 35 Palatinate 28 Pamir-Alai Mountains 63 Pauls, Agnetha 108 Pauls, Family 186 The Great Trek of the Russian Mennonites Pauls, Peter 117, 143 “Pearl of the East’” 116-117 Penner, Anna 186 Penner, Cornelius W. 118 Penner, Family 34, 184 Penner, Johannes K. 84, 91, 92, 111, 115, 124, 135, 162, 168-169, 170, 177, 183, 186 Penner, mother 120 Penner, Wilhelm 84, 86, 88, 90, 91, 104, 112, 160, 170, 172-175, 188 Penner, Mrs. Wilhelm 174-175 Pentecost Sunday 183 Perovsk, Fort 89, 94, 101, 133 Peters, Issac 82 Peters, Abraham 76, 78, 83, 97, 100, 102, 105, 111, 128-131, 137, 138, 144 Peters, Anna 108 Peters, Dietrich 92, 98, 99, 103 Peters, Family 34 Petro-Alexandrovsk 149, 150, 157, 160, 167, 188 Philadelphia, Church of 111 Philips, Dirk 26, 53 Philips, Obbe 26, 53 Pietists 53, 58 Pilgrim’s Progress 54 Place of gathering 131, 133, 134 Place of refuge 52, 60, 62, 85, 86, 114, 128, 131, 150-151, 160, 168-170, 173 Poetry 171, 175 Poland 30 Poor relief 38 Poplar trees 141 Postmillennialism 51, 52 Postal employee 56 Poverty 141, 144 Premillennialism 51, 60 President of the Imperial Council 45 President of the Special Military Commis- sion 45 Prangnau, Molotschna 97 Prayer 173 Probation 142 Problems 37, 102, 133, 138, 151, 161, 162, 173 Promised land 63, 150 Prosperity 37 Prussia 50, 56, 58 Prussia, East 30, 32-34 Prussia, West 32-34, 36 Prussian authorities 36 Prussian consul 45 Index Prussian Mennonites 178 Prussian National Anthem 161 Psalms, Book of 131 Q Quadruple godhead 175 Quicksand 154 Quietistic 50 Quiring, Cornelius 92, 99, 103, 188 Quiring, Jonas 86, 88, 170, 171 Quiring, Peter 92, 99, 103, 188 R Railway engineers 44 Ramadan, month of 123 Rape 149 Red Cross, Russian 48 Reformation (Protestant) 24, 25, 54 Reformed Church 30 Reform movement in Russia 44 Refugees 30, 31, 170, 173, 178, 184, 186 Regier, Bernard 178 Registered breeding stock 38 Reimer, Family 34, 188 Religious holidays 171 Resurrection day 173 Revelation, Book of 50, 58, 100, 111, 112, 186, 171 Revival 99, 146 Revolution 28 Rheydt 32 Rhine River 30 Riffel, Family 188 Riedemann, Peter 53 Riesen, Emil 134, 149, 160, 169, 170 “Righteous” 126 Robbery 149 Roof, flat 141 Roman Catholic Church 24, 25, 28, 30, 62 Roman Papacy 52 Rueffels, Georg 143 Russia, East 36, 66, 81 Russia, New 35-36 Russian ambassador to Bukhara 119 Russian Colonial Law of 1842 37 Russian Embassy, Samarkand 96 Russian Exhibition, Tashkent 103, 105, 106 Russian imperialism 35-36, 42-43, 68, 72, 94 Russian language 44, 100, 106 249 Russian Orthodox Church 110-111 Russification 44, 72 Russophile 111 S Sacherni Lapuschai 116 Sacrament 28 **Salt-Trakt’’ 40 Samara 21, 40, 81, 82, 184 Samara, Old 36 Samarkand, Bukhara 54, 55, 62, 66, 70, 7